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Check Out The Lifehacker Chumby Widget

8:30AM Angus Kidman | One of the challenges with the local release of the Chumby has been the relative lack of Australian-centric gadgets for the Wi-Fi-enabled Internet thingummy. Local distributor Internode is running a competition to encourage development, but even without that incentive Lifehacker’s technical guru Kaan has come to the party with a Lifehacker-specific widget, listing all the latest headlines from your favourite technology productivity site. If you’ve got a Chumby already (or have one on your Christmas list), be sure to check it out. Thanks Kaan! Lifehacker Chumby More »
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Chumby Seeking Aussie Apps

10:30AM Angus Kidman | Internode has been selling Chumby, its hard-to-describe programmable Internet gadget/toy/tech fetishist’s dream, for a few weeks now, and the ISP is keen to encourage the development of more Chumby widgets that supply Australian content. If you’ve got some basic programming chops and fancy winning a Chumby, there’s a competition running offering up Chumby prizes for the best efforts. If you want a basic course in building Chumby widgets (not too hard if you can handle basic Flash and RSS), check out this overview on the Chumby wiki. Chumby Competition More »